removing external usb hdd without unmounting causes reboot?

[Momchil Ivanov]

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 19:34:06 Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:05:59AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > Bottom line here is that the kernel panics when removing a USB device
> > that has filesystems mounted.
>
> s/USB //

Just a dumb question: what does "umount -f" does? And doing something like 
that when a fs goes away shouldn`t fix it?

If the problem is in general with a file system, regardless of the provider, 
then what does one do when a mounted smbfs becomes unavailable due to remote 
host down, no route to host or some other network related problems? Same 
question for NFS mounted filesystems?

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